A Texan conservative Anglican -- yes, a square peg -- ponders both churchly and worldly things and enjoys his new church.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Rigged Standing Committee helps rig Crown Nominations Commission

One wishes one could forget the Standing
Committee of the Anglican Communion.Created in such a way as to undermine the Primates Meeting, it was so
stacked with Western liberals that several Southern orthodox openly stopped
attending, saying their presence had been rendered pointless.

Such committees then fade into
irrelevance, right?Sadly not in
this case.For the Standing
Committee has appointed the Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan to the Crown
Nominations Commission tasked to pick the next Archbishop of Canterbury.

As the press release puts it, “The Standing Committee then voted by single transferable vote —
the method agreed by the Anglican Consultative Council for all its elections —
and Morgan’s name emerged.”

This reminds me of Exodus
32:24.To paraphrase and adapt,
“they threw in their votes, and out came this appointment.”As if the appointment just happened and
was not caused by a perniciously and willfully rigged process.

And after the appointment of
--Morgan, I fear the same could be said of whomever the Crown Commission
picks.The appointment of --Morgan
is truly egregious.With the
exception of the Presiding Heretic herself, one could hardly think of an
appointment more obnoxious to the orthodox.Unless the commission somehow makes a great pick for
Canterbury after all, the credibility of the next Lord of Canterbury is already
undermined.

Perhaps the silver lining is
that if a good pick is somehow made, no one could say it came from a commission
of mossback reactionaries.But
given the blowhard that Morgan is, I would not put it past him to spout off and
undermine a reasonable pick for Canterbury.

It is hard to see anything
good coming out of this provocative appointment, just as it is hard to see
anything good coming out of the stacked Standing Committee of the Anglican
Communion.

And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any
gold, let them break it off: so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire,
and there came out this calf.